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An 1827 Illinois law prohibited the sale of drugs that could induce abortions. [5] The law classed these medications as a "poison". [6] The 1827 law was the first in the nation to impose criminal penalties in connection with abortion before quickening. [7] Illinois passed a bill in 1867 that made abortion and attempted abortion a criminal offense.
The 1821 abortion law of Connecticut was the first known law passed in the United States to restrict abortion. Although this law did not completely outlaw abortions, it placed heavier restrictions, as it prevented people from attempting or receiving abortions, which was generally through the consumption of poison, during the first four months ...
The law banned intact dilation and extraction, which opponents of abortion rights referred to as "partial-birth abortion", and stipulated that anyone breaking the law would get a prison sentence up to 2.5 years. The United States Supreme Court upheld the 2003 ban by a narrow majority of 5–4, marking the first time the Court has allowed a ban ...
A little more than one week after a neighboring state saw abortion restrictions go into effect, Gov. JB Pritzker signed a slate of bills expanding reproductive rights in Illinois. The new fetal ...
"The Sept. 4 ruling discounts the beliefs of over 150,000 Illinois Baptists, as well as all Illinoisans who hold these same sacred convictions, by requiring all insurance coverage in our state to ...
Access to abortion is essentially locked down in Illinois. Legislation approved by both houses of the General Assembly include requiring Illinois insurers to cover abortion-inducing drugs ...
An informed consent clause, although allowing medical professionals not to perform procedures against their conscience, does not allow professionals to give fraudulent information to deter a patient from obtaining such a procedure (such as lying about the risks involved in an abortion to deter one from obtaining one) in order to impose one's belief using deception.
Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday signed a wide-ranging bill protecting abortion rights in the state.The Reproductive Health Act states that "a fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus does not ...